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Player’s Handbook
Unleash Chaotic Magic
Your innate magic stems from the forces of chaos that underlie the order of creation. You or an ancestor might have endured exposure to raw magic, perhaps through a planar
portal leading to Limbo or the Elemental Planes. Perhaps you were blessed by a fey being or marked by a demon. Or your magic could be a fluke with no apparent cause. Whatever its source, this magic churns within you, waiting for any outlet.
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Player’s Handbook
Kit, Bedroll, Book (philosophy), Lamp, Oil (3 flasks), Traveler's Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You spent your early years secluded in a hut or monastery located well beyond the outskirts of the
nearest settlement. In those days, your only companions were the creatures of the forest and those who would occasionally visit to bring news of the outside world and supplies. The solitude allowed you to spend many hours pondering the mysteries of creation.
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
Ritual Sickle. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Ritual Sickle"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d4 + 2;{"diceNotation":"1d4 + 2", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
":"Ritual Sickle"} Slashing damage plus 1 Necrotic damage.Doomsayer and Fanatic
Cultists use extreme measures to spread radical beliefs. They often follow obscure mystical traditions or obsess over
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. If the gem is destroyed, Sammaster can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP, which the ritual consumes, and by expending 5,000 GP.Multiattack. Sammaster makes
bound dragons to his service, and learned how to drive dragons across Faerûn into a berserk rage. He considered his intellect beyond morality and became paranoid, resentful, and megalomaniacal
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
toward her house—and a sign of the demon lord’s disregard for the family’s rivals, who were not thus gifted. The creation prompts the leaders of the house to begin crafting new plans
no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 11):
At will: dancing lights, darkness
1/day each: confusion, faerie fireA draegloth is a demon created by an elf
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Disgorge (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Disgorge"}. The demon vomits in a 15-foot cube. Each creature
the spew.Maw demons share the ceaseless hunger for carnage and mortal flesh of their master, Yeenoghu. After a maw demon rests for 8 hours, anything devoured by it is transported directly into the
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
moment they attack—and then they are the last thing their victims see.
A shadowblade gains their powers over shadow via a ritual in which they kill a shadow demon and mystically prevent it from re
other houses. In communities free of Lolth’s sway, they serve as spies tasked with foiling the plots of that demon lord’s cult. In any role they take on, they move undetected until the
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
attack—and then they are the last thing their victims see.
A shadowblade gains their powers over shadow via a ritual in which they kill a shadow demon and mystically prevent it from re-forming in
will: dancing lights, darkness
1/day each: faerie fire, levitate (self only)
Summon Shadow Demon (1/Day). The drow attempts to magically summon a shadow demon (see the Monster Manual) with a 50 percent
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
Your innate magic comes from the forces of chaos that underlie the order of creation. You might have endured exposure to raw magic, perhaps through a planar portal leading to Limbo, the Elemental
Planes, or the Far Realm. Perhaps you were blessed by a fey being or marked by a demon. Or your magic could be a fluke of your birth, with no apparent cause. However it came to be, this magic churns within you, waiting for any outlet.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
tanarukks, using these ferocious warriors to bolster their followers’ strength.
The demon lord Baphomet gladly shares the secret of creating tanarukks with those who entreat him for power; the cult
of Gruumsh has also mastered a ritual for this purpose, and bestows it on those deemed worthy. Whatever process is used corrupts the subject, transforming them into a vicious Fiend.
Although
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the same name.
Collaborative Undeath
To become alhoons, mind flayer arcanists must cooperate in the creation of a periapt of mind trapping, a fist-sized container made of silver, emerald, and
amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
a successful one.A bodak is the undying remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death.
A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while carving the demon
this way, then are unleashed to spread death in Orcus’s name.
Bodaks are extensions of Orcus’s will outside the Abyss, serving the demon prince’s aims and other minions. Orcus can
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
, or half as much damage on a successful one.The demon lord Aurnozci is a wormlike horror of fiery flesh and toxic seepage. In its present form, Aurnozci can’t leave Xulregg, the Abyssal layer
worshipers to enact its will beyond the Abyss. The exact nature of the curse that binds Aurnozci to Xulregg is its cult’s most closely guarded secret, fully known only to the faith’s enigmatic
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"piercing"} piercing damage.Dedicated to Lolth, chitines are multiarmed bipeds with arachnid qualities. Most live in colonies in the Underdark and fight the enemies of the Demon Queen of Spiders
, chitines make good workers, and they can be useful if the cult finds an independent chitine colony and want to infiltrate it. If the creation process yields a choldrith, though, the cult destroys
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
with deadZargash worships Orcus, the Demon Prince of Undeath, who has promised to transform Zargash into a vampire after a lifetime of faithful service. For a living priest to worship Orcus is utter
folly, but Zargash is twisted beyond any hope of redemption. His hobbies include slaying the living and animating the dead.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait. “I do not fear death
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
calls throughout Sigil and the planes beyond.
The vagaries of undeath make spirits difficult to predict. Nevertheless, exorcists are well equipped for their work. Molded by experiences with
radiant energy from their staves to repel a host of supernatural entities.
An exorcist’s senses pierce the veil of death to perceive wandering ghosts on the Ethereal Plane as well as shadow demon
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. For each head the dracohydra has beyond one, it gets an extra reaction that can be used only for opportunity attacks.
Wakeful. While the dracohydra sleeps, at least one of its heads is
of its own. If left alone, they hunt the local fauna almost to extinction, then move on to threatening the folk of nearby settlements.
A dracohydra can sometimes be found in the service of the spellcaster who created it, kept obedient by the rituals of their creation.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the creation of an allip. Secrets protected in this manner range in scope from a demon lord’s true name to the hidden truths of the cosmic order. The creature acquires the secret, but the curse
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
beyond providing creature comforts to travelers. Every one of the house’s enclaves—which are more numerous than those of any other dragonmarked house—is a sanctuary beyond the legal
reach of any government or dragonmarked house. Baron Yoren and his daughter Chervina have greatly expanded the house’s presence even in remote areas such as the edge of the Demon Wastes, guided by their study of the Draconic Prophecy.
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth, much as a forest
protectors who don’t understand the dragons’ proclivity for destroying large swaths of countryside. Beyond that, topaz dragons dislike company and grow irritated when disturbed. But anyone who
Eye and Hand of Vecna
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
power, Vecna couldn’t escape his own mortality. He began to fear death and take steps to prevent his end from ever coming about.
Orcus, the demon prince of undeath, taught Vecna a ritual that
would allow him to live on as a lich. Beyond death, he became the greatest of all liches. Even though his body gradually withered and decayed, Vecna continued to expand his evil dominion. So formidable
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Heir of Hags
One way hags create more of their kind is through the creation of hexbloods. Every hexblood exhibits features suggestive of the hag whose magic inspires their powers. This includes an
considered a gift from the town’s patron deity, who is known as Mother.
BECOMING A HAG
Hags can undertake a ritual to irreversibly transform a hexblood they created into a new hag, either one of
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effect.Wearing fearsome masks, duergar mind masters usually operate as spies, both inside and beyond a duergar stronghold. Their psionically augmented abilities enable them to see through illusions with ease
, creation is a fiercely passionate process. They tend to favor works that are sturdy and grand, but in a bare, stripped-down fashion that favors geometric forms. The strongholds they design are blocky
Juiblex
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Out of the Abyss
of the target.Called the Faceless Lord and the Oozing Hunger in ancient grimoires, Juiblex is demon lord of slime and ooze, a noxious creature that doesn’t care about the plots and schemes of
truly insane worship Juiblex and tend to its slimes and oozes. Those who offer themselves up to the demon lord are engulfed by it and become vaguely humanoid, sentient oozes. The bodies of these former
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dedicated solely to her, but the devotees performed no such ritual. As revenge for the devotees’ betrayal, the Spider Queen manipulated the creation rituals so that they sometimes created
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Basic Rules (2014)
)
2
Beauty. What is beautiful points us beyond itself toward what is true. (Good)
3
Logic. Emotions must not cloud our logical thinking. (Lawful)
4
No Limits. Nothing should fetter the
information.
2
Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on its anatomy.
3
Unlocking an ancient mystery is worth the price of a civilization.
4
I overlook
Warlock
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Basic Rules (2014)
stars overhead, a wild-eyed tiefling chants the mystic ritual that will open a doorway to a distant world. Warlocks are seekers of the knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the multiverse. Through
relationship between warlock and patron is like that of a cleric and a deity, though the beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are not gods. A warlock might lead a cult dedicated to a demon
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
world.
A few rare firbolgs are entrusted by their clan with an important mission that takes them beyond their homes. These firbolgs feel like pilgrims in a strange land, and usually they wish only to
Reason for Adventuring
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Outcast for murder
2
Outcast for severely damaging home territory
3
Clan slain by invading humanoids
4
Clan slain by a dragon or demon
5
Moonblade
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
special ritual in the throne room of an elven regent or in a temple dedicated to the elven gods.
A moonblade won’t serve anyone it regards as craven, erratic, corrupt, or at odds with
first rune always grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Each rune beyond the first grants the moonblade an additional property. The DM chooses each property or
races
”. Beyond that, little is known about their creation, though elemental magic was clearly involved. New snowborn have appeared and vanished over the years since their origin, yet the pattern of
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
1
Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. (Neutral)
2
Beauty. What is beautiful points us beyond itself toward what is true. (Good)
3
Logic. Emotions must
back.
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Flaw
1
I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
2
Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on its anatomy.
3
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth, much as a forest fire clears dead wood
understand the dragons’ proclivity for destroying large swaths of countryside. Beyond that, topaz dragons dislike company and grow irritated when disturbed. But anyone who can endure their abrasive
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
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Ideal
1
Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. (Neutral)
2
Beauty. What is beautiful points us beyond itself toward what is true. (Good
great deeds and win it back.
d6
Flaw
1
I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
2
Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
A devastation orb is an elemental bomb that can be created at the site of an elemental node by performing a ritual with an elemental weapon. The type of orb created depends on the node used. For
example, an air node creates a devastation orb of air. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires 2,000 gp worth of special components, which are consumed.
A devastation orb measures 12 inches in
Elf
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“I have never imagined such beauty existed,” Goldmoon said softly. The day’s march had been difficult, but the reward at the end was beyond their dreams. The companions stood on a
might continue to use the child name. Each elf’s adult name is a unique creation, though it might reflect the names of respected individuals or other family members. Little distinction exists






